Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-08
No Further TiukerinS.

To tie Ldjtor Of the Dispatch:
In an article published in your issue
of the 9Th instant, entitled Another
View Of It,, is found M argument or
proposition III favor OF repeal of the
Kiddleber bill upon the ground that
"a very large majority of the people are
opposed TO the settlement on the basis
of that bill. Is notyour correspondent
rather too swift in his conclusions? No
doubt he is personally of that opinion,
but do very large majority of Nirgi-
mans agree with him ? On the contrary
do they not think it better rot to dis
turb the status quo Just at this time :?
Ii there is one thing about which avery
large majority of our people are agreed
upon, it is that the Rlddleberger settle
ment measures up to the full extent of
our present ability to pay, our inability
to do better now being caused by the
imposition by Mahoneites of that act
upon the people of Virginia, and if our
creditors are 50 unwise or so exacting
as TO finally refuse it, as they seem to
have done, why then weprOpose to rest
our case, for the present at least, right
there, and see what time will bring
forth. What good could be accom-
plished by a hasty, ill-digested recon-
mendatiCn for constitutional amend
Iuent ora repeal of the act just ON the eve
of IN important political campaign ?
Why, Just as well tear down all your
breaatwOrks and admit the enemy to
your vantage ground. 1t is mentioned
in the article referred to that Lieu
tenant Governor John Il. Massey en-
teItains opinions such as does said cor
respondent namely, that our debt
must be raised to about 80, 900, 900,
because, forsoQth, General Malone in
serted in the bill the excess over that
sum "for certain reasons not known to
any one else" What lame and i'm
potent conclusion--a piece of high
handed repudiation-the Riddleberger
bill was and is but now comes one of
its fathers, if not the father, the most
reverend .pohtico Lieutenant Governor,
and proposes to sink us still deeper into
the mire of disgrace. We swallowed
the dirty act at our last convention at
the bayonet's point in order to save our
State frsm still greater damnation,
and now We are asked to voluntary
enact that which would be almost u
crime and would cover us with infamy.
In the namc Of honesty let us not as
Democrats and fair men still further
smirch our escutcheon by our own
deliberate actions. We have had
enough legislation on this subject-too
much, indeed. Let it alone, at least
just now. Let it severely alone. The
good people are not SO solicitous about
the general welfare of the State. You
cannot force a horse to drink, though
you may drive him TO the trough. the
coupons cannot be thrust into our
hands and we forced TO tender them for
taxes, as pressed as Virginians are for
money. Those who do use them, how
ever, who are seduced by the syron-
like paragraphs and circulars of certain
coupon-venders. will live to see the day
that they will rue it. Old Virginia is
slow but sure, and she never tires.
The writer was so-called Funder,"
is a sebt-psyer now, but finds that cir
cumstances have vastly altered the case,
and believes that large majority of
NirginiaRs are opposed to any further
tinkering of this kettleful OF debt.
Let it simmer down, and don't patch
the pot nor add any more fuel TO the
fire. INDEBITATUs.